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Pushing for Disability Inclusive Funding  

April 8, 2025 Reports

In March 2025, two Channel Foundation grantee partners released a groundbreaking new publication, Activists from Strength: What You Need to Know to Be a Disability and Gender-Inclusive Funder....

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Global Coalition Accepts UN Human Rights Prize

December 10, 2023 Awards

The Global Coalition of Civil Society, Indigenous Peoples, Social Movements, and Local Communities for the Universal Recognition of the Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment, a group with several connections to Channel grantees, accepted the 2023 UN Human Rights Prize on December 10, 2023....

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Stephanie Ortoleva standing at a podium, to the right of a large screen presenting her photo and stating "2023 Perdita Huston Honoree".

WEI Founder Honored With Human Rights Award

December 7, 2023 Awards

Stephanie Ortoleva, an international human rights lawyer and founder of Women Enabled International (WEI), a longtime Channel grantee partner, was honored with the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA) 2023 Perdita Huston Human Rights Award....

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WEI Announces Feminist Accessibility Protocol

April 26, 2023 Reports

Women Enabled International, a Channel grantee partner dedicated to fighting for the rights of women with disabilities, released a new Feminist Accessibility Protocol on April 26, 2023 along with the Inclusive Generation Equality Collective (IGEC). The Protocol is a “groundbreaking set of 13 commitments setting the standard for disability accessibility…...

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CEDAW Committee Adopts General Recommendation on Indigenous Women and Girls

October 26, 2022 Victories

On October 26, 2022, the Committee of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Again Women (or CEDAW) adopted a General Recommendation (39) on Indigenous Women and Girls....

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CEDAW Committee Preparing General Recommendation on Indigenous Women

May 31, 2022 Victories

Indigenous women’s groups and their allies including several Channel grantee partners (the International Indigenous Women’s Forum or FIMI, JASS, and WHRI) have been waging an advocacy campaign for several years for a General Recommendation (GR) on Indigenous women and girls....

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WILPF graphic reading "NO MORE WARS. NOT NOW. NOT EVER AGAIN" with image of a gun and bullets

Solidarity with Ukraine

March 10, 2022 Action

To stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, particularly the women being forced to flee and activists taking on the role of humanitarian responders, consider supporting some of Channel’s longtime partners who are set up to get funds directly to grassroots groups on the ground and are actively engaging…...

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Channel Grantees Collaborate on Disability Inclusion

December 22, 2021 Victories

Recognizing a need to be more inclusive of women with disabilities, Channel partner World Pulse invited fellow grantees Mobility International USA (MIUSA) and Women Enabled International (WEI) to engage with them through an initiative aimed at inclusive excellence starting in 2020.  ...

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Women with Disabilities Transforming Movements Report

June 30, 2019 Reports

On June 25th, 2019 Disability Rights Fund (DRF) released their “1 in 5” report which features women with disabilities sharing the impact DRF’s funding has had on them....

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Pioneering Toolkit for Women with Disabilities

March 23, 2018 Launches

On March 14, 2018 as a part of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York, Channel grantee Women Enabled International (WEI) officially launched their accountABILITY Toolkit....

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